The best way to perfect a new nail art design, says Artistic Nail Design international educator Wende Thummel, is to pick one design you want to learn, then spend an entire week practicing it on every client you can.

By dreaming up enticing upgrades to your current services, you can increase your earning potential without adding additional time. Small simultaneous add-ons — like facial sheet masks and luxury hand treatments — also up each service ticket.

Patience is supposedly a virtue, but these days, I feel like hardly anyone exhibits this trait. A swipe or a click is all that’s expected to connect us with what we want. I too crave the satisfaction of a quick turn-around, but my most recent manicure appointment showed me that some things are just worth waiting for.

“I created the Service Pricing Toolkit because so many beauty professionals were receiving terrible advice about pricing from fellow professionals who had never been taught the necessary math to calculate appropriate, sustainable prices,” says creator, cosmetologist and beauty industry advocate Tina Alberino.

Holly Schippers AKA FingerNailFixer was the keynote speaker at the 2016 NW Nail Tech Retreat. Watch her speech as she explains there is no excuse sufficient enough to devalue your time and offers a reasonable explanation to raise your service prices.

OPI’s new online Profit Calculator is designed to illustrate how nail technicians and salon owners can maximize their business and grow their clientele by providing OPI services — and it’s free to anyone with an OPI Pro account.